Process mining has been used for auditing and internal control risk assessment as an audit analytical tool. This paper aims at providing a framework on how process mining can be applied to identify fraud schemes and assessing the riskiness of business processes. Specifically, the proposed...

Unlike traditional audit techniques, process mining of event logs provides a new aspect for auditing by tracking and capturing every single routing in the dataset. This paper aims at adopting process mining to evaluate the effectiveness of internal control using a real-life event log from a...

This study investigates whether auditors’ experiences with their clients’ cybersecurity incidents affect their subsequent audit efforts with non-breached clients and help these clients reduce cybersecurity risks. Using data from the Audit Analytics Cybersecurity database and the Privacy...

This study investigates whether auditors strategically perceive the tone of management qualitative earnings press releases and incorporate that information when determining audit fees. Using publicly issued management qualitative earnings press releases, we quantify abnormal tones that cannot be...

In this study, we examine whether managers rank risk factors and list them in order of their importance in Item 1A of the 10-K. We focus on firms' credit risk disclosures and where they are positioned in Item 1A. Firms that place the credit risk factor closer to the beginning have lower credit...

Sludge-to-energy technologies have gradually been recognized by more researchers because they can promote the development of circular economy and contribute to realizing a sustainable society. Hence, it is necessary to have a comprehensive recognition of the performances of different...

When measuring the nominal effective exchange rate (NEER), three factors should be considered: direct import competition, direct export competition and third market competition. The traditional NEER methodology using aggregated export trade data underestimates the competition between countries...